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Hello everyone, i have used the alpha freebie, the Australia was created using Cass Hammered metal script, photo is from pixabay and masked with one from an old software i have called Craft Artist. also used 2 VM filters (old 32 bit) called weave and dribble on background paper.... best wishes to you all.

Day 11 - frames. The tip I did like was, for example, using glitter and pulling it into the pattern section so you could use the floodfill tool which I did with my frames, and the text "Swinging on a Wire". I also duplicated the pink frame to make it look like the petal had flipped behind and over it. So, here is my final project. I've had fun refreshing my skills with PSP. Always good to come back to it after a long break.

When I was working on this project, Cassel showed us how to align "Objects" to a "Grid." But I also noticed that if I wanted to move right or left with my mouse pointer or pen, it was possible for the object to move vertically in addition to horizontal movement. A little research led me to this trick: It is possible to move an object using the keyboard arrows: When the Move tool is activated, you can use the arrow keys to move the active image or layer. Hold down CTRL while using the arrow keys to move by 10 pixels, or hold down Shift to move by 50 pixels.

Ik ben overnieuw begonnen met PSP met een wel een heel eenvoudige les, een ruit. Niet de moeite waard om te laten zien. Maar meer om te zien of ik het niet verleerd ben. Het ging redelijk goed.

Project 5 This rabbit was sitting in the churchyard opposite where my first photo of this bootcamp was taken. He was totally peaceful and so in the moment… The kit is the same one I used for the first project - the Jessica Dunne To Behold kit, font is DM Sans Medium, the photo is mine, the quote is from Eckhart Tolle.

It's a great sport, Corrie. They are so graceful to watch. Thomas is 9 and working very hard towards the black belt.

Day 11 I felt the need to correct my page after Ann questioning the frame. I looked back at the tutorial and realised the frame should have been on top of the photo, so have now corrected this. We have had a crazy few days and trying to get this finished meant mistakes happening. Apologies for the confusion.

This is so pretty. the petal looks neat tucked behind.

What a beautiful page, @AprilDawn. It's so good to see you.

I've never seen a gold one, I love it. the cutout looks great (grate-r?).

Very nice! My granddaughter started this way too and has now a black belt 1e dan at age 15!

The letter G had me puzzled for a while and the word "grater" didn't came to mind. But then my eye fell on this copper guild mastermark that is in a small holder in our "office" - just a room but we call it our office 😉 It has a diameter of only 4.4 cm and was issued in 1780 to a relative of mine on my mom's side of the family. In those days there were guilds for the trades, like fishmongers, butchers, bakers, masons etc. You started as an apprentice for a master of the guild and after a couple of years when you were ready, you had to deliver a piece of work, your masterpiece that showed the guild that you had learned all there was to learn. If the guild approved you got the master title and a guild mastermark to prove it, which allowed you to start - in this case - your own bakery. On one side of the guild mastermark is the name of my ancestor and the word "Mr Bakker" (Bakker meaning baker) and on the other side is a windmill and stalks of wheat.

G is for "Glasses (Eclipse)". My cousin, her husband and 2 granddaughters came to my house to see the eclipse a year ago. Since she was a former elementary teacher, she did some research about watching the eclipse with kids. Her granddaughters were 5th grade and 7th grade at the time. One thing she found was using paper plates to hold the glasses. She brought the items needed with her and that morning we all made our own holders. I was very glad she thought of this as I couldn't keep the eclipse glasses in place over my regular glasses. I had no problems with this. It was a fun day and I still have them displayed on my bulletin board in my office. That bulletin board has been hanging in that spot since the late 60's and still has stuff my high school years on it! (Never thought of using it for the letter "B")

Bisquick - The recipe on the Bisquick box is what my Mom always used for pancakes and that is what I always used too. Because my husband is on a low salt diet, I have not made pancakes in a long time. I sure do miss the the chocolate chip pancakes I used to make. I would wait just a little while after poring the batter in the electric skillet and then sprinkle chocolate chips on top, and of course turn them over to brown the other side. I started using the electric skillet when the stove at the house we rented was electric and had two setting, Barely warm and burn every thing. I discovered you could even pop popcorn in the electric skillet. LOL I don't have a waffle iron so I have never made them. I might try Cassel's crepe recipe because I have been thinking about trying to make some because there is no baking soda or powder in them.

oh my gosh, this is really interesting. Again, your letter G fits perfectly with the story. Well photographed, I can see all the details and it is really detailed. The craftmanship of this Mastermark is unbelievable.

What a beautiful layout with the mask and all the blending. This is a really cool looking bird.. It looks similar to the Magpies where I live in Western Canada.

Great story of the history of this special piece.

My grandson, Thomas, is one of my favorite subjects. We are so proud of his achievements. My lilac and orange papers are from my current Build a kit, originally a paper from Adobe Express with a blend mode. The frame is from FF; the belts and clip are from Adobe express. The squares are a material from the belts that I made into a seamless pattern using Carole's script. I extracted the photo from a video sent to me by my daughter in law. My son is the one holding the board. The layered font is from CF and called Dynamix Street. The "o" is an AI generated on Adobe Express.

Project 4 Here is Ver. 2. the one I do like.

Rene, I tried that script for my G entry. Here's G = Grater. I use it all the time. I prefer it to the fancier rotary versions. I guess it could also qualify as Gold Grater! 😉

This is my third project. This is my 3-month-old grandson, Brian. In the photo on the right, he had just rolled over for one of his first times.

My recent "documentation" of JK's trip.

Ik bak regelmatig linzen pannenkoeken. Ik vind ze heel lekker en er zit veel eiwit in. Ik gebruik hiervoor rode of oranje linzen. Voor ongeveer 3 of 4 pannenkoeken heb je 1 kopje linzen nodig. Week de linzen minimaal 2 uur in water. Giet het water af, je kunt er nu in doen wat je wil. Mix het beslag met een of andere mixer tot een beslag. Ik bak ze het liefste in roomboter, geen margrine. In olie kan ook maar dan gaat het makkelijk te snel. Ik neem de receptuur aan van gewone pannenkoeken. Dus met wat melk, wat bakpoeder, een eitje en een beetje zout. nutricial yeast is een optie. Aangezien ik een pre diabeet ben moet ik erg voorzichtig zijn met koolhydraten. Dus neem ik vaak kaas als beleg, of eiersalade of tonijnsalade, dat we hier in elke supermarkt kunnen kopen.

A very lovely page and it is good to see you back!

I tried this and I can put text inside a vector shape and hide the shape, but when I wanted to save it I got the message: "an error has occurred while trying to save the image as a psp.image". I got that many times when I tried to do it a bit differently. On another trial I could save my image as a psp.image but when I duplicated the text and wanted to convert that duplicate to a raster layer it went into the long line of text which I always get with a selection layer. So far I don't think this will be a solution.

These color combinations makes it more attractive IMHO and I love your humor 🤣

I used the top horizontal line. Text paper, letterboard, flashcard, diamond template, staple. I love this type of challenge. I used some words which I wrote taken from the letterboard in the text paper. Although I could have used my own diamond template, I opted to use a paper template instead. I discovered paper templates, a while back through Carole's template masterclass. I did use a reverse shadow on the S flashcard, which was subtle enough to emphasize itoverplapped on the P flashcard. Due to compression it isn't visible. I'm still fixated on creating cicular layouts. Welsh Spring flowers, taken this past week. Happy Mother's Day to all those mums living in the UK. It is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent.

I prefer this version too 🙂

Project 4 One of the emails asked what tips/techniques did we learn that we liked. I will have to say it's SHIFT-D (duplicate), to duplicate the layout. I never really thought about how much I use tip, turns out I use it a lot. And this layout is a case in point. I will post the version 1, early in the layout it wasn't working for me, so I duplicated to test switching the background paper with the rectangle pinking shear paper. These "clocks" I've had, I thought for about 25, but hubby informed me we've being together 38 yrs, so they are now about 35 yrs old, which means i've been working out longer than 35 yrs. No wonder I'm tired. I did not shadow the lines I made because I wasnt sure if I should since they fad out. Does anyone have any advice on that? the photos dont show the time I had getting a light beam to shine on the background the way I liked, when I cropped it was all gone. bummer. The fonts used; Gill Sans Ultra Bold and Adellia Heart the dumbbell is an extraction from my Alphabet Photo Challenge letter D. and is my photo of a dumbbell in my arsenals of free weights. the water drops and both the dark background(Ver 2) and light background (Ver 1) are Jessica Dunn (copperspice and plum hill kits) The smaller selected rectangles are Gina Jones (zig zags on V2) and Marisa Lerin (V1) The two lines under the top photo are fading lines as learned in the Q&A November 10, 2024 (first way of doing it out of 4 ways) Here is version 1, the one that wasnt working for me.

Nice brushes! Have a nice trip to Scotland and come back with a lot of new photos for your projects.

Talking about watermarks, there was a time when I would watermark all of my work. I haven't done so for some time now. Here are the two I created from a jpeg I found on line years ago. You will notice that I used the same font, I always use and to this day to sign and date polaroid images in layouts. Which is called Stanley. I used the date stamp technique in the first one. Selecting the text, then hit the delete key on the camera image. I edited the camera image, to suit what I was looking for. Deleting and tapering the edges.

This challenge became a kind of rollercoaster. At first I started in Affinity, but it didn't worked out well. The photo I choose was not suitable for what I had in mind, I had won the cass-Uneven Lines script and wanted to incorporate that in my layout but found it for this layout a bit too busy. In the end I duplicated the layer with the lines and rotated it 90 degrees and used it as a background under the part of the layout that I already had done. I wanted something to write the date and used an icon with a handheld phone. Afterall that is how I take my photos.😉

Stamped letters challenge. I am currently going through a circle phase. I saw a layout similar by AnnieC so decided to copy it. As per usual, I have saved a template. Allowing me to reuse it. All the circles are saved as vectors. Roll on Spring.